The Official PSP Media Manager Review

Ever noticed how some companies, like Sony, who can make ubercool hardware often make really crappy software!
I like PSPWare too, though I usually leave all my converted videos in PSP Video 9 ready for transfer. It seems more direct.
But I don't think PSPWare should be criticized for relying on iTunes, as many people who have large song collections use that. iTunes is truly excellent for organizing large song libraries, finding stuff, setting up smart playlists, dragging & dropping.
Clearly Sony will never support iTunes, it's a conflict of interest thing, just like they won't integrate properly with Windows Media Player, but 3rd parties can work out the best solution and write software which addresses it.
Use what works best for you of course, but I think 3rd party “unofficial” managers should be supported over the corporates.
But what finishes it for me is another piece of Sony software… installing a Rootkit as part of their DRM on purchased CDs.
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Because of that, I don't think I'll ever (knowingly) touch a piece of Sony software ever again. They just can't be trusted.

Ever noticed how some companies, like Sony, who can make ubercool hardware often make really crappy software!
I like PSPWare too, but I usually leave all my converted videos in PSP Video 9 ready for transfer. It seems more direct.
But I don't think PSPWare should be criticized for relying on iTunes, as many people who have large song collections use that. iTunes is truly excellent for organizing large song libraries, finding stuff, setting up smart playlists, dragging & dropping.
Clearly Sony will never support iTunes, it's a conflict of interest thing, just like they won't integrate properly with Windows Media Player, but 3rd parties can work out the best solution and write software which addresses it.
Use what works best for you of course, but I think 3rd party “unofficial” managers should be supported over the corporates.
But what finishes it for me is another piece of Sony software… installing a Rootkit as part of their DRM on purchased CDs.
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Because of that, I don't think I'll ever (knowingly) touch a piece of Sony software ever again. They just can't be trusted.

Why do I have to connect the psp in order for it to transcode the video? Unless you were going to dedicate the psp's processing power to transcoding the video, having to connect the psp makes no sense.
If sony would allow me to convert videos without connecting to the psp, I would be able to leave to a far off location playing wipeout pure until the process was done.
The interface also lack the ability to estimate and display how much time you have remaining on the current encode process; thus, I am stuck looking at the bar viewing the elapsed time, mentally converting it to seconds, dividing it by the percent complete, multiplying by 100 to see how long in seconds I have left, and then finally dividing by 60 to figure out how many minutes I have left. Considering sony has tons of space on the interface to indicate this information, I feel the above process I take to decern how long I have to live without playing with my PSP, a waste of time. I wonder if it is interface design team or the programmers that dropped the ball.
To put it mildly, you don't actually need this program if you know how to use explorer's drag and drop features in windows, a dvd ripper, an mp3 ripper or p2p program, and good old psp video 9.

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I wish the new version 2.5 still had the feature to put documents on the psp put add the support for .docx in word 2007.

do you hve to use something like this to add music or can you do it w/o it?